Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 May 2019 in Senate: This Motion, therefore, seeks to enhance accountability and also bring the Senate to speed. We need to know whether the money was not enough and a report tabled before The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: the Senate, so that we make a determination whether we need to extend further support to our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also need to be alive to the fact that the people of Kenya designed county headquarters to be areas which were district headquarters by the year 1992. There were some counties that were unfortunate and marginalized. For example, in Nyamira County, for a long time, we operated from Kisii. It was our headquarters for the larger Kisii community. They had better infrastructure. Kisii County does not need to build new headquarters for the governor. This is because, what ... view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. In reply to the Motion, I start by thanking the Senators who have contributed. I specifically thank the Senators who are in the House. I thank the Chairperson of the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, Sen. Nderitu Kinyua, for his contribution and assurance that his Committee will take up this matter. He also indicated that as a good supporter of devolution, he is willing to engage with Senators who come from these respective counties, including having a meeting with us over a cup of tea in Nairobi. I also wish to thank Sen. Seneta ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to comment on the Address that was delivered by His Excellency the President on 4th April, 2019. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: I sincerely pay my heartfelt congratulations to the President for emphasizing the unity of all Kenyans. I am sure that if this Address was being made in the year 2018, perhaps we could not be standing here to give our comments on it. That goes a long way to score the importance of the “handshake” that took place between His Excellency the President and the Rt. (Hon.) Former Prime Minister, Raila Amollo Odinga. view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, as the President truly said, let us not forget where we have come from. We all know what this country went through in the year 2007. The President cautioned us that we should not take the easier options which will be to divide this country or put us into this idea of us versus them. This will not help us in building a cohesive Kenya that we and the future generations will be proud of. view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: I urge all of us, politicians, to exercise caution in the kind of language we use when addressing our supporters. Often one watches people speaking in rallies and finds that somebody this country has appointed to be our representative in the African Union (AU) on matters of infrastructure is called names. At times, I hear people referring to him as: “ Yule mganga au mtu wa vitendawili .” That does not help this country. view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: We should now appreciate that we want to forget the past divisive politics and move forward as one people because politics will always be there. Elections come and go. We had our elections in the year 2017 which was won by His Excellency the President Kenyatta and the Deputy President William Ruto. God willing in 2022, we will have our elections and we do not know who will win. It is only God who knows who will be the next President after President Uhuru Kenyatta. For now, let us rally behind the President in ensuring that we a united and ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: As people who have been elected to this Senate to oversight devolution, we must continue to remind our governors that the resources that we send to them should be used for development and not convert it to money that they give to their preferred companies. This is what the President reminded us, as leaders, that we need to see value of this money that we send to our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is also the issue of the rule of law. Corruption is a cancer in this country. In combating corruption, we must also heed the fact that we ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: The proper way of fighting corruption is to leave our independent bodies like the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to do the investigations quietly and make recommendations for prosecutions to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Once the Office of the DPP approves prosecution, that is when we should have press releases about so-and-so being taken to court because of corruption. It is annoying that whenever you open a newspaper, there is a corruption scandal and people being accused are never taken to courts and charged with any offence. That is not fair. view